Merry Christmas

Christmas is here, well on Tuesday it is. Always at this time of the year I find myself in a state of reflection. Triumphs, failures, highs and lows, it’s all there in your mind as you sit there watching some shit Christmas film, you know, the one you normally watch on the afternoon of Christmas day, the same one you watched the year before, but this year it’s different. 

I have the whole of 2012 whizzing around my mind. It has been what can only be described as “incredible”.

The beginnings of an idea, an idea that became the Suicide Jockeys, an entity that has grown over the last 12 months all on its own, with no fuss or force, no agenda apart from that of good times.

I know I said it when I was in Mexico but I feel so strongly that I am in the best place I have ever been and have experienced some amazing times over this past year. I have forged friendships with some of the best people, always up for the ride, the adventure. We’ve done a lot together and although since mother winter showed her cold hearted face, and we have scattered somewhat, the bond is strong, we lay dormant, yet ready, and awake! Waiting for the New Year and that first crisp dry day in January to resurface in an orchestra of noise.

For me personally 2012 has been the best year of my life, I have married the woman of my dreams, I have travelled and I have started something with people who I can now only best describe as my brothers. I have, “although never lost touch”, re-ignited relationships with family and will keep those flames burning bright from now

I spare a thought to friends, and loved ones who are no longer with us. I am drawn to one in particular, 7 years and the void you left in the lives you touched is still there. You truly were a loved by all that knew you and had the pleasure of your company.

Don’t lose touch with the people around you, life is short and although it seems like it will last forever when the cold beer flows and the miles fall behind your wheels on the tarmac, in the grand scheme of it all, we are all but a flash in time, a moment once captured then lost forever. Live it for you, your friendships, your love of whatever it is that sets your heart racing and makes your grin like a total prick. cause in the end all you have is what you take with you. In 100 years no one will even know you existed, probably, but like Rhino says “pain fades, scars heal, and glory lasts forever”

Love to you and yours this holiday season, I hope your year was as fucking epic as mine!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Michael, Out...